Pocket Players Podcast #58: It Stinks!

We have a ton of news and videos to go over this week, as a battered and beaten KC joins a hale and freshly scented Adell to go over all of it for the 3DS, Vita, and mobile devices. Plus, the glorious return of the Fortnight Question!

Author Description

KC is a freelance writer and Editor-in-Chief of The Pocket Players. He has been an editor for numerous magazines and hosted several podcasts, including The Pallet Tribune and GameStation Radio. He believes a black hat is a sure sign of great character. @Skeith27

5 Responses to “Pocket Players Podcast #58: It Stinks!”

Hey, I just wanted to welcome anyone who found this podcast after clicking our banner on Reddit. I’m looking to really grow our following, so if you came here and actually listened to the show, then you’re pretty much awesome.

This is my first time here, I saw that banner on reddit. I’m not really into podcasts, I’d rather watch videos, but I do like that this site is dedicated to portable gaming. I just recently took my Vita out of my closet and started playing it again, and am finding a new love for what I once considered a waste of money. I’ll keep this site in mind in the future, because I find that handhelds are generally overlooked, and haven’t a site dedicated solely to that makes filtering out the crap easier.

And about what The Seth said, I don’t have any web site or business to advertise, but I’m sorry you feel like reddit ads aren’t a good investment, because if that’s the case for you and others then people might stop buying ads on reddit. Then reddit will have no money to host their servers, and bye bye goes reddit. I’ve spent 2 years at that site, I don’t want it to go.

I would love to do videos, but I’m not exactly sure what I would do on them, other than have my usual discussions, or would that by itself be enough for someone like you?

As for the ad campaign, yeah, I didn’t really get a great return on investment. I only got about 20 people to visit us, out of thousands who saw the link. To put that in perspective, when someone just posts one of our links on Reddit, I get 100 to 1,000 visits easy.

I know Reddit doesn’t like it when you explicitly ask people to post your site’s articles, but, just saying I DO have a little button below each post that makes it pretty easy to do so… Hahah

Just so you know, I try to post one of your links each week to the 3DS subreddit. I might be in danger of being labeled a spammer though, so I can’t do any more than that.

@fredbob3 makes a good point – if Reddit doesn’t get ads, they could lose money and go away at some point. Maybe if you get enough regular hits from people posting your links, it would still be worth your while to pay for an ad once in a while?